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Watch as All Hallows Eve rolls in. 

The air is crisp and thin. 

I have let go of the one I cared for most.

The one who was dependent on me more than I could bear. 

Now I face the fear of freedom. 

The fear of loneliness when others are next to me.

But I do it for myself. 

I go through it for myself.

For the first time its not for someone else.

check facts folks

Signal Boost.

Photographer Mattias Klum from National Geographic gets close and personal with a lion.

Mistake

I'm vegetarian i ordered a veggie buger from buger king the put no meat on the warper didn't have a second thought. Got home and open it. There. Is. No. Buger. Two buns. Tomatoes. Onions. Lettce. Ketchup. Mayo. Pickles. No veggie bun. It's getting redone right now.

Something i needed rn

Okay. Gardening 101; or “Auntie Sys I have a yard that’s currently a yard and don’t know SHIT or FUCK about how to make it not be a boring-ass yard.”

Step 1; go to your local landfill and get all of the newspaper you can. Cardboard will also work. If your neighborhood puts them out for recycling, go around and grab them all like a little newspaper goblin.

Step 2; acquire mulch. If you WANT, you can go pay for it at a garden store, but we’re all cheap lazy bitches here so screw that. Most landfills will collect yard waste and branches and chip them into woodchips, which you can get for PENNIES or FREE. Go load up on that good shit.

I like straw too, which I can get for barter because I am related to half the people around here and a solid 65% of my extended family are farmers. I give Uncle Daryl three quarts of elderberry jelly or a couple pounds of morels in spring and he loads me up with straw bales.

Step 3; figure what parts of grass you want to be not-grass, and cover that shit in newspaper, good and thick. 5-10 layers. It helps to wet the newspaper to keep it from blowing away as you work.

Now, cover that newspaper with a good thick layer of mulch.

Congrats, you’re removing the grass. It’ll starve to death under the mulch and newspaper and rot into compost. You now have garden beds and have not dug one single bit of sod.

If you can’t wait for six months to plant, pull the mulch aside, cut a hole in the newspaper, and dig out a plug of sod the size of the planting hole. Throw some compost in there and plant. Tuck mulch back around plant. Water well.

There ya go. Garden beds. In a year, when you pull back the mulch the newspaper will be almost rotted away, and the soil underneath soft and loamy.

If you care about trans youth at all please read this

Right now there’s a petition going on titled “Save 6-Year-Old James From Chemical Castration”. Luna, the youth in question, has faced emotional abuse from her father (cutting her hair, refusing to call her by her pronouns, etc.) Jeffrey so her mother, Anne, took him to court to defend her daughter and won the case (note that the case file listed on its website mentions nothing about supposed ‘chemical castration’, it only mentions that the mother is trying to help her daughter by getting her a psychologist). Here’s an excerpt from the case file:

I don’t know what the dad is trying to achieve with this other than form a smear campaign against Luna and her mother and spread transphobia but if you can I highly recommend you report this petition before this man does any more damage.

Thank you for your time.

EDIT:  Apparently they’re trying to make money off this too so thats fun ig

According to cutestat their website’s domain name seems to be registered by GoDaddy and they seem to be running on Wordpress, perhaps it would help to alert them about this too.

hmm don’t know how to address this but i looked it up and apparently Richard Phillips, the 72-year-old black man recently released from prison after serving 45 years for murder he didn’t commit, is being forced to sell his art, rather than willingly selling it, since the justice system is refusing to pay him anything. there’s a post going around saying he’s showcasing his art and we should support him by purchasing it, but i think it’s an important distinction that he doesn’t want to part from the art that he made in prison. parting permanently from art you’ve made can be difficult, and considering the emotional value of the art he made in order to cope with his situation, it’s cruel to take it away from him rather than to just donate money. also there’s like this weird fetishization of his “prison art” in the media that is frankly disgusting, like ogling his pain and suffering and making it into some sort of spectacle. i scoured twitter for a donation page but i couldn’t find anything yet

Jordan Peele’s rebooting The Twilight Zone, which is awesome, but there is going to be a bunch of fake/racist sci-fi fans probably getting angry at him if he decides to do episodes about social issues specifically about race.

And let me just tell you as a HUGE Twilight Zone fan, the original show is 90% commentary on subjects like race, war, and even mental health.

if you say the phrase “you can’t be mad at me i have the right to free speech” three times in a mirror justin mcelroy appears and vaporizes you instantly